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>>7452517
>Also its in a period of time when developers were still adjusting from the arcade standard of make-it-as-hard-as-possible.
Imagine a zoomer having to pay 25 cents every time they die in a game instead of being able to infinitely continue. Their Steam libraries would be empty because they would all be broke dying 5000 times on level 1 or getting raped by irl opponents in a fighting game where both of you had to learn the game quarter by quarter in a dark dirty arcade full of cigarette smoke and drug dealers, with no training mode or infinite replays or skill level matching automatic opponent finder, and you could get the shit kicked out of you if you pissed off the wrong asshole with your smack talk or cheap combos

Zoomers are ALWAYS asking “Why are Boomers so much better than us at videogames??” It’s because we were forged into steel with every quarter we put in an arcade machine knowing that if we wanted to avoid having to go back to follow our mom around the mall while she shops, we had to get good and make every single one of our handful of quarters last